Mustafa Akyol On March 30, 2025, I had the pleasure of visiting the Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia, for a conversation inspired by my latest book, The Islamic Moses. The event…

Caleb O. Brown After almost 18 years and well over 4,000 episodes, I’m ending my time as host of the Cato Daily Podcast on April 22. On that final episode, I’ll…

One of the arguments given in favor of tariffs is that they will enable domestic manufacturers to better compete with producers abroad. While people may believe that to be true,…

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It is not just the future generation who bears the burden of increased government debt, but the current generation who pay the interest to the banks and corporations through higher…

Jeffrey A. Singer Last week, President Donald Trump told a National Republican Congressional Committee audience that he intends to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical products entering the United States soon. Finished…

Adam N. Michel As Congress debates how to extend the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts, a new poll from the Cato Institute suggests the American people support an approach that…

Neal McCluskey Last month I wrote about creating an updated K‑12 productivity chart. The difficulty of any chart is balancing ease of understanding with accuracy and nuance, and that applies here.…

The principle of Occam‘s Razor states that we should avoid superfluous activity. When it comes to our monetary system, however, the Federal Reserve System doesn’t simplify things, but instead complicates…

James A. Dorn Free market economist Leland Yeager. (Photo: X, Twitter) In 1954, the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation published a small book by Leland B. Yeager titled, Free Trade: America’s Opportunity. In…